Iranian Public Opinion on Military Service Before and After a 2024 Missile Exchange

Original survey data from Iran, fielded before and after the April 13, 2024 missile exchange with Israel, examines how external threats influence public attitudes toward conscription. The dataset, authored by Roya Izadi and hosted by Harvard Dataverse, uses matching techniques to compare responses across the two periods. It was last updated on April 28, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing shifts in support for mandatory male conscription based on exposure to geopolitical shocks.
• Studying changes in attitudes toward women's military service based on survey timing relative to an external threat.
• Investigating the legitimization of state coercion in contexts of regime distrust based on public survey responses.
• Examining the reconfiguration of gender boundaries around citizenship and military participation based on comparative survey data.

Strengths

• Data collection is temporally anchored to a specific geopolitical event (April 13, 2024 missile exchange).
• Survey design employs matching techniques for comparative analysis across two distinct periods.
• The study context is explicitly defined (Iran, an authoritarian regime with specific gender hierarchies).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analyses.
• The dataset's focus on a single country and event may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Roya Izadi.

Collection Method

Original survey data collected in Iran, using matching techniques.

Time Range

Surveys fielded before and after April 13, 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 15:01:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Iran.